When I was a kid, we would have called what’s going on over at Wolf Point East a “jungle gym.” And my sister would promptly fall off of it, break her arm, and drive her lower teeth through her bottom lip because it was the 1970’s and soft hadn’t been invented yet. But this is the new millennium, and those millennium Millennials would probably call the...

The latest Catholic Church parking lot to become a skyscraper is now open for business. 3Eleven, at 311 West Illinois Street, has begun accepting move-ins The skyscraper, designed by West Town’s FitzGerald Associates for The Loop’s The John Buck Company, features 245 homes across 25 stories. It’s also immediately next door to Assumption Catholic Church, so at least...

When I was a kid, we would have called what’s going on over at Wolf Point East a “jungle gym.” And my sister would promptly fall off of it, break her arm, and drive her lower teeth through her bottom lip because it was the 1970’s and soft hadn’t been invented yet. But this is the new millennium, and those millennium Millennials would probably call the weave of metal struts, risers, and other things I...

The latest Catholic Church parking lot to become a skyscraper is now open for business. 3Eleven, at 311 West Illinois Street, has begun accepting move-ins The skyscraper, designed by West Town’s FitzGerald Associates for The Loop’s The John Buck Company, features 245 homes across 25 stories. It’s also immediately next door to Assumption Catholic Church, so at least the neighbors are quiet. Except for weddings....

It was just a couple of days ago that River North Spy Chris sent us photos of crane parts being delivered to Wolf Point. Now… Bam! We have achieved crane! Chris has sent in a new set of photos showing a legitimate, if diminutive, tower crane at the heart of the construction for the 628,500-square-foot Wolf Point East. It won’t remain small for long. Wolf Point East is expected to rise 668 feet over the Chicago River,...

It’s still the dead of winter in Chicago, but the next thing you know, daffodils will be shoving their yellow heads out of the dirt in Lincoln Park. Before that happens, a big yellow crane is going to rise from the dirt at Wolf Point. River North Spy Chris slid the photo above into our tip line. It shows a piece of a tower crane being delivered to the site of what will soon be Wolf Point East (313 West Wolf Point Plaza/326...

One of Chicago’s most exciting ongoing developments is the decades-delayed kitting out of Wolf Point. Skyscraper nerds from the West Loop to Waukegan have been watching Wolf in wonder as it slowly transforms from a surface parking lot into the residential and office hub of River North. While work is underway on Pelli Clark Pelli’s Wolf Point East, bKL’s Wolf Point West is the only tower of the three that has...

There’s something to be said for a rainy autumn day in Chicago. Something about the drizzle pattering off the pale yellow leaves of the few remaining ash trees in the city’s medians. And the low-hanging clouds that turn the city of skyscrapers into a busy village. And then there’s the mud. The people at Wolf Point know about mud. You may remember last month the hole being dug for Pelli Clarke Pelli’s East...

Do you like bulldogs? How about comfortable shoes? If these sound like your kind of things, then you’ll be happy to know that progress is being made on the new residential block called The Ardus at 676 North LaSalle Street. The Ardus is a project by Cedar Street and the Harlem Irving Companies. It will bring another 149 new apartments to River North, on the corner of LaSalle Street and Huron. As you can see in the photograph...

Word on the street is that living near Wolf Point has gone from the dirge of caisson drilling to the relentless pounding of sheet piling being pounded relentlessly. Loop Spy Chris sent in the photograph above showing the ongoing pounding underway at 313 West Wolf Point Plaza. But we’re told that mere pictures can’t capture the noise and vibrations rippling through the neighborhood. Such is life in the big city. Before...

The oh-so-familiar drone of the caisson drill has returned to Wolf Point with a vengeance. After the triumphant completion of Wolf Point West, River Point, and 150 North Riverside there was a temporary quieting in the construction-day cacophony that for the last two years has bounced off the skyscrapers lining the Chicago River. But that’s all past now that Pelli Clark Pelli’s Wolf Point East (313 West Wolf Point Plaza)...

As downtown Chicago ads more and more residents, the ratio of people to greenspace grows increasingly lopsided. That’s part of the reason so many people were happy to see River thth’s newest public park open late last week. The park is on the west side of Exhibit on Superior (165 West Superior Street), the 35-story residential tower designed by the Loop’s bKL Architecture for Magellan Development and Mac Management....